Most of my train room walls have little or no train realted stuff (other than trains!) on the walls.I saw this weather station thing on www.mrtrain.com website and thought it was pretty cool. It has brass thermometer, barometer and hygrometer gauges and you can put whatever tin sign he sells on it, and I thought this was pretty neat. If you want to see it, go to his web site and click on the ‘new items’ menu.
What do you have on your walls???
biege latex on cement… but i hope to get a mountain type background painted before i build the big table.
I also have road name signs all around the top of the walls.
I use a collection of road name tin signs that I have ridden over the last 50 years. I am still looking for a South Shore.
In the areas that are not layout background I have a photo colodge (sp?) of engines that I’ve ridden on or saw, one with photos of a prototype for the station I scratch build, and a couple of frames with patches of the trains and original RR’s that owned the trackage that I’ve ridden on.
Hi guys,
Here are some pic of the walls of my train room. This house had a finished basement when I bought it. The trains has three rooms in the basement. I have many of the different tin signs and also some of my diecast cars on the walls.
The shadow box was from my mom.
The door on the left takes you to the ‘Not so round house’ and the door on the right takes to the ‘Circus Layout’.
tom
I’m afraid all four walls in the train room have at least some portion of the layout on them. The east, south, have 3 levels, and west has 2 levels, and the north only has one level that sits on top of the bookshelves.
The artwork has been moved upstairs since the wife left.[swg]
Will have background scenery that will make layout look deeper. Ceiling will be sky blue. Wife is going to paint the scenes. She is looking forward to this. I am too as I 'm slow at scenery and she is a good artist and craftsperson…
railroad art, photos, and artifacts. some fantasy florida passenger trains. railroad dining car china.
Damn Elliot! Your train room is bigger than my living room!
Easy Jack, It may be bigger than some people’s houses, 38’ x 46’. [swg]
Actually the real answer is sheetrock.[:p][;)]
Besides sheetrock, my walls are covered with lovely paintings done by my 17-year-old daughter, who was accepted at nearby George Mason University. I’m so happy because it now looks like she will be able to live in the basement and watch over the pool table and toy trains and hopefully not party too much with the college kids.
dav
Tacked-up covers ripped from Walthers catalogs. Two lanterns and a conductor’s pouch from the K&B RR. A Simpsons calendar. Blue-painted plywood boards. Pink Fuzzy wall insulation.
Most of the walls of my train room are filled with shelves that hold all the trains that I can’t fit on my layout. I also have some train pictures as well (old train celendars that I took apart), but eventually they will be replaced with more shelves as I get more trains.
Currently, the walls to my train room don’t exist, but I’ve got a couple of train related jigsaw puzzles I finished framing myself this weekend for the walls when it’s done.
Assuming I can get the puzzle of Santa Claus in his shop putting together O gauge trains away from my son (it’s on the wall over his bed now). And I’ve got a puzzle called “Whistle Stop” of a steam loco stopped at a station. The engineer’s in front of the engine with his hands in his pockets & there’s a little kid in a steam engine shaped pedal car lookup at at the engine.
I’ll also probably put my collectionof R/C cars on shelves on the walls. I expect I’ll be able to put every piece of o gauge stuff I have on the layout, when it’s done.
Tony
In my younger days I lived in a small apartment in Denver. It was too small to have a layout, but I liked to see my trains. So I put up some shelves, and the collection grew so I put up more… This went on until there was NO wall space left!!! The only room that didn’t have trains was the bathroom.!!! I had turned my apartment into a MUSEUM.
I nicknamed this full coverage shelving, “3 dimensional wallpaper”.[swg]
Deep sky blue paint on all walls, Trainshelves on one end of the room, the rest of the walls are empty, I plan to sponge-paint some clouds and perhaps some suggestion of hills (muted grays and greens) at some point.
Background scenery, painted on large photography studio paper;
paneling with shelves for trains;
framed photos of a friends’ toy train art photos;
framed sheets of Grif Teller PRR calendar art;
prototype train photos from excursions
I have old railroad calendars, some black&white photos a friends mother took
of a N&W J, old railroad maps. Tin sign of Lionel catalog cover from 1954,( same one Spankybird has on his wall) ,trains & trucks on shelves. All those photo’s look great guys!
HELLO ALL[:D]
Alan